PENGSHUi – ‘Destroy Yourself’ [Album Review]

When you press play on Destroy Yourself, the new album from the musical molotov cocktail that is PENGSHUi, they “want your chest to fucking rattle.” Judging by the way track two, the explosive “Eat The Rich,” unleashes a flurry of kicks to your head, there’s no worry about Destroy Yourself achieving its aim. But what else can you expect when a heavy metal kid who grew up in Dubai meets a guitarist who studied jazz in Leeds with the pair joining forces with an MC who grew up on a West London council estate weened on a diet of reggae by his Jamaican grandfather? Write that down on paper and it should be musical carnage. Listen to the trio rage through “Ain’t No Love,” a sonic assault of grime, rap, metal and punk, and it all just clicks together into one of the most exciting, unpredictable c...

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